Martin Sheen Quotes

• You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

  Martin Sheen

• When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

  Martin Sheen

• What we try to say is that it doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

  Martin Sheen

• Well, I think that Catholicism’s basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it’s between you and God, not you and the Church.

  Martin Sheen

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World… and the poverty in the United States as well.

  Martin Sheen

• We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

  Martin Sheen

• We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

  Martin Sheen

• We (actors) don’t really change the world. We reflect it… but Washington really changes the world.

  Martin Sheen

• War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

  Martin Sheen

• Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn’t have a sense of humor.

  Martin Sheen

• This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

  Martin Sheen

• There’s no way that I could be the president. You can’t have a pacifist in the White House… I’m an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

• The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

  Martin Sheen

• That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.

  Martin Sheen

• On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn’t left to the wealthy and privileged.

  Martin Sheen

• No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

  Martin Sheen

• My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

  Martin Sheen

• It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

  Martin Sheen

• It doesn’t really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we’re not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone – including our enemies.

  Martin Sheen

• I’m one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don’t believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

  Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen (39)

Birth:	3rd August, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor

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